Hello All, Below is a detailed list of my system that I plan to build, would be great if i could get some comment/advice/recomendations from people about my choices. I have not built a machine in about eight years so am new to some of the technology. Case – Gigabyte Triton http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=450660 MotherBoard – ASUS P5N-D SLI http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=729916 CPU – Intel core 2 Quad Q6600 GO S http://scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=643237 with heat sink - http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=727865 RAM – 4Gigs of Ballistix Tracer 240-pin DIMM (with LEDs), DDR2 PC2-6400 http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=F91FFEA3A5CA7304 HDD – 2 X 250GB Western Digital 7200rpm http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=567857 GPU – 2 X Nvidia 512MB 9800GTX+ (running SLI mode) http://scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=853559 PSU – 720W Gigabyte http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=832516 Blu Ray – Re-Writer http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=727916 DVD-RW -LG GGC-H20L CD- RW – Samsung TS-H492C/LEAH x52 CDRW OS – Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit Monitor – Dell 20” Ultra Sharp Widescreen (for when I can’t use the Bravia) My main concern is cooling as I plan to do some intensive stuff on the machine (playing crysis, video/photo editing etc) How much potential has this set up to be overclocked, CPU only not worried about GPU. I know its different with every one but what are peoples experiances with this motherboard or/and cpu. Also power wise of this PSU going to suffice? Thanks
the q6600 is a great overclocker. with a good cooler on it you should easily make 3.2ghz. I cant comment on the case you picked though as I have no experince with it. description of it sounds good though. have you seen any pics of the inside? might be cramped for 2 9800gtx+ speaking of which you might want to just consider getting a gtx 260 or 4870 instead. power supply is a high enough wattage but I like many people around here will reccomend a corsair of similar wattage instead. like this one http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=684732
you've chosen a 750i motherboard with half speed PCIe slots for a SLi setup. either stretch for 780i or just forget the marketed fake hype, and buy a single GPU solution. things never heard about/not sure about performance: -Gigabyte case (have a look at Antec 900 for best cooling) -Asus heatsink (have a look at Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme for best overclock on q6600) -720w Gigabyte PSU (might be a problem if you are going SLi) (try Corsair Tx750w) RAID0 will only give you hassle, why not buy a single fast HDD? something like Western Digital 640AAKS??
My thinking behind the two HDD was that one would be for windows and programme files whilst i keep my media on the other. I have at lease 120gb of music and then 70gb of videos. Then if one windows one goes i dont lose my media.
2 9800GTX+ will get you better performance while it worked. gtx260 will get you better performance on games nVidia hasn't released driver updates for
